Service Learning

Providing formational experiences while serving others in
our community.

Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign

Thank you for participating in the March Campaign. As a church community, we exceeded our donation goal of 5,000 pounds of groceries to our partner, CROSS Food Shelf. This food helps feed our neighbors, kids in our schools, and others struggling to make ends meet.

Service Environments
The desire to be good neighbors and build community compels us to find ways to serve together. From this we learn about our call to be active in the world around us and to integrate serving others into our daily lives. Service can take on many forms, sometimes it is hands-on like serving a meal or raking a yard and other times it is relationship like being a friend to someone or listening to someone’s story.

Serving experiences can be a catalyst to life change which is why learning is
the second core element of these environments. We believe that serving with others gives us a unique opportunity to process our experiences, ask questions, and think about our individual call to work for justice in our communities. We look at every serving experience through a lens of learning, intentionally seeing the people around us and being open to ask questions of ourselves and others. From this learning, we can interpret how Jesus is calling us into a more meaningful relationship with him and others.

We have created a variety of service environments to represent these different ways to serve. The service environments occur once a month starting in October and ending in April.

Serve Maple Grove
On the first Saturday morning of each month, we serve the Maple Grove community.

Starts in October.

Neighbor in Need?

If you know of an individual or family in the Maple Grove community who might need help around their home, contact Rebecca.

Participants will serve a meal at a partner organization.

Starts in October.

Trips
We are called to love others and work to bring justice to the world. In an effort to do so, we partner with people, locally and globally, to participate in God’s purpose and presence in the world.

Each team traveling to Haiti has the opportunity to be with the staff and children at the Mephiboscheth Home and Mother Teresa orphanage.

Next Gen Haiti Trip
From June 17-27, 9th-12th grade students and mentors will be traveling to Haiti to learn about themselves, others and God. Pray for them as the prepare for this time in Haiti.